Sergiy Korsunsky | |
Office1: | Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan |
Term Start1: | 2020 |
Predecessor1: | Ihor Kharchenko |
Office2: | Head of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine |
Term Start2: | 2017 |
Term End2: | 2020 |
Predecessor2: | Tsivatyi Viacheslav |
Successor2: | Nadolenko Gennadiy |
Office3: | Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey |
Term Start3: | 2008 |
Term End3: | 2016 |
President13: | Petro Poroshenko |
Primeminister3: | Arseniy Yatsenyuk |
Predecessor3: | Oleksandr Mishchenko |
Successor3: | Andrey Sibigia |
Office4: | Chargé d'Affaires of Ukraine to the United States |
Term Start4: | 2005 |
Term End4: | 2005 |
President4: | Viktor Yushchenko |
Predecessor4: | Mykhailo Reznik |
Successor4: | Oleh Shamshur |
Birth Date: | 10 August 1962 |
Birth Place: | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Alma Mater: | Kyiv University |
Profession: | Physics and Mathematics |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Sergiy Korsunsky (born August 10, 1962) is a Ukrainian diplomat. He previously served as Chargé d'affaires of Ukraine to the United States during 2005 and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Turkey (2008-2016). Director of the Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine in 2017-2020.
Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan (since April 2020).[1]
Sergiy Korsunsky graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1984, faculty for Mathematics and Mechanics. Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics).
In 1995 professional training course at the Institute for International Relations, Kyiv State University
1984 — 1988 — Researcher with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
1988 — 1991 — Researcher-Consultant, Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
1991 — 1994 — Director-General of the Department for State Scientific and Technological Programs at the State Committee on Science and Technologies of Ukraine
1994 — 1995 — Secretary of the first class of the Ukraine’s National Commission for UNESCO
1995 — 1998 — Counsellor for Economy, Science and Technologies, Embassy of Ukraine to the State of Israel
1998 — 2000 — Deputy Head of the Department for Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
2000 — 2006 — Counsellor, Minister Counsellor of the Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, D.C., in 2005 charge d' Affairs a.i. of Ukraine to the United States.
2006 — 2008 — Head of the Department for Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
July 2008 — up to June 18, 2016 — Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Turkey[2]
October 2017 – April 2020 - Director, Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine
Since 14.04.2020 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan
Visiting professor Kobe Gakuin University, Japan
Honorary professor Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine
Author of more than 350 academic papers and other publications including 7 books, among them "Nonlinear waves in dispersive and dissipative systems with coupled fields" (Addison, Wesley. Longman, 1997), “Technology Transfer in the United States” (Kyiv, 2005), “Energy Diplomacy” (Kyiv, 2008), "Foreign Policy in Times of Transformations: how not to be left on the sidelines of history"(Kharkiv, 2020), How to build relations with Asian countries: economy, diplomacy, cultural peculiarities (Kharkiv, 2021).
Author of 10 books of fiction published in 2010-2019 under the pen-name Sergey Vladich (in Russian), as hobby